bug#26085: Formatting of AUCTeX Reference Card

[Mosè Giordano]

2017-03-13 19:45 GMT+01:00 Tristan Miller <address@hidden>:
> Greetings.
>
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 19:07:02 +0100, Mosè Giordano
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I suspect that the refcard is tailored to letter paper size.  It has
>> almost the same code as the Emacs refcard, which looks fine on that
>> paper format[1], but if compiled for A4 is as unbalanced as the AUCTeX
>> refcard.
>
> I had assumed that A4 was targeted, because the tex-ref.pdf file
> in the AUCTeX source distribution is set on A4 paper.  I suppose if I
> can figure out how to compile tex-ref.tex for US letter paper, I could
> print it on A4 paper using my printer's "scale to fit" option.  Then it
> would be foldable, at the expense of the text being slightly compressed
> or stretched.

Enclosed you can find the source code of the AUCTeX refcard adapted to
to code of the Emacs's one and the resulting PDF.  You can switch
between A4 and letter by setting "\letterpaper" and "\pdflayout"
macros at the beginning of the file.

Bye,
Mosè

tex-ref.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

tex-ref.tex
Description: TeX document